Adjectives Quote by Dick Schaap Download Open image “Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.” — Dick Schaap ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adjectives Cliche Prose Writing
I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain, — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
